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Take your pick
We checked around and found enough volunteer opportunities and news to keep you busy through 2008. Of course, this isn’t an exhaustive collection of local need. In fact, it’s only a tiny, tiny scratch on the vast surface of opportunity. For every group listed here, there are dozens and dozens more looking for a hand.…
Some quiche with that coffee?
The juncture of Halcyon Road and Highway 1 is a surprisingly peaceful place, overlooking Arroyo Grande and surrounded by vast agricultural fields. The location lends itself to a business specializing in spoiling customers with a hot cup of coffee or a glass of wine and some quiche. Mesa Cafe and Coffee Co. is not a…
Judge delivers return-of-pot order, Grover bogarts
On Dec. 29, nearly a year after Grover Beach police seized 20.4 grams of medical cannabis from Arroyo Grande patient Ken Parson, Superior Court Judge Michael Duffy ordered the return of that property. However, when Parson and his attorney, Lou Koory, called the department to execute the order that afternoon, police said they weren’t quite…
FAST FACTS
Bambu Batu your friendly South County provider of all things bamboo recently launched a web site for Internet junkies who prefer to do their shopping from the comfort of their own home. The site features an online catalog, shopping cart, and more facts about bamboo than you’ll know what to do with. Bambu Batu’s new…
Citizens talk CSD off ledge
As promised, the Los Osos Community Services District used its regularly scheduled Dec. 28 hearing to discuss self-dissolution of the debt-burdened agency. The apparently frustration-fueled decision was born of a move by the county during a mid-December bankruptcy proceeding to harness control of district assets that the board maintains it needs to stay afloat. As…
Seal of approval
Across thousands of miles they journey, converging at a stretch of sandy beach just north of San Simeon mammoth marine mammals and the humans who flock to watch them. Directing this meeting for the benefit of all are the blue-jacketed volunteers from the Friends of the Elephant Seal. # It’s now the busiest time of…
League seeks public input
The League of Women Voters of San Luis Obispo County is looking for input, and is inviting the public to weigh in at the chapter’s annual planning meeting on Jan. 11 at 11 a.m. The input will influence what issues the league will focus on throughout the year. The local chapter studies key community issues…
Listen up, Mom and Pops
About a week ago, I was fortunate enough to touch base with a friend from high school. She e-mailed me and suggested we both take time from our busy schedules and meet for coffee. I thought it an excellent idea! We live on opposite ends of San Luis Obispo County and so naturally I asked…
Nipomo man dies in hit-and-run
On Dec. 27, Paul Andrew Wikholm, 21, of Nipomo, was killed by an apparent hit-and-run on Thompson Avenue. Another driver from Nipomo called 911 and reported discovering Wikholm after hitting the body with his vehicle at about 5:20 a.m. Autopsy results showed that Wikholm was killed by blunt force trauma. Sgt. Brian Hascall, public information…
Letters
I hate it when government treats people like thisThank you for your latest article about the Los Osos sewer issue (“The latest from Los Osos,” Dec. 14). The Tribune’s coverage seems to reflect their editorial position by omitting things that do not support it, mostly. It sure seems like the fix is in and government…
Bulk of animal cruelty case remains in limbo
Jurors in the Cynthia Walsh case delivered their verdict against the 57-year-old Edna Valley woman late the afternoon of Dec. 27 at the courthouse in San Luis Obispo. The panel dealt guilty verdicts to the pet owner on three misdemeanor counts of neglect, abuse, and improper licensing, while remaining deadlocked on six counts of felony…
Get on this, now
In the spirit of fresh beginnings, I decided to make a whole buttload of resolutions though not for myself. It’s much easier to unload buttloads onto other people, don’t you think? It’s all the fun of starting new with none of the self-sacrifice. That’s my kind of change. For example, I resolve all the superfluous…
They walk the line
For at least six years or probably as long as there have been protesters outside of the Planned Parenthood office in San Luis Obispo a group of volunteers has made itself into a literal barrier between women seeking abortion services and a persistent line of demonstrators. # A core group of activists, bearing pamphlets and…
